sense i think of relief. the young troopers i was with in the armored m-wrap, those cumbersome vehicles that saved some lives in the face of all the ied s and booby traps and suicide bombers and everybody else, everything else, we re elited that they re going to be home for christmas. how it ended, i think ambiguously. we thought we would be leaving some troops in country, and that s not the case, they would not agree to support this agreement to give our soldiers and marines immunity from criminal prosecution, so, president obama pulled the plug, as you know, october 21st, out by the 31st, but they re out today. thr they re early and as you mentioned absolutely elated about going home for christmas. a bittersweet moment. i wish we could say that iraq was a stable democracy, but they have the chance, they have the chance, and fought